One day Jesus came with His disciples in a boat to the country of the
Gadarenes, near Galilee. They landed near the tombs, that is, caverns cut
into the rock, where the dead were buried. And there met them a man, who,
for a long time, had been possessed by many unclean spirits. He lived in
the tombs and wore no clothes. He had been so fierce and wild that his
friends had been obliged to chain him up, but he had burst his fetters,
and the devils had driven him out to the tombs.

Jesus bade the unclean spirits to come out of the man. And when the
man caught sight of Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before Him, saying,
"What have I to do with Thee, Jesus, Thou Son of God most high? I beseech
Thee to torment me not."

And Jesus asked him his name. And he said, "Legion," because many devils
were in him. They besought Jesus that He would not make them go into the
sea, but would let them enter into a herd of swine that were feeding on
the cliffs close by. He suffered them to do so, and the devils went out
of the man and entered into the pigs, and the whole herd ran violently
over the cliff into the water and were drowned. And when the herdsmen saw
what was done, they fled into the city and told all the people. Then the
people came out to Jesus, and they saw the man that had been possessed,
clothed and in his right mind, sitting at the feet of Jesus. And they that
had seen it told them by what means the man had been healed, and they were
afraid. The man out of whom the devils had departed, besought Him that
he might stay with Jesus, but He sent him away, saying, "Return to thy
house, and show what great things God hath done unto thee." And he went
his way and published throughout the city what great things Jesus had done
unto him.